May 16, 2016

A (short) walk down memory lane…

Pittsburgh is a great place to have kids…

And Happy Valley…

…a great place to raise them

The eye never stops moving

Questions and consequences

  • Image stabilization, frames of reference, forward models
  • Optic flow parsing, self vs. objects

  • What are the statistics of natural visual experiences?
  • Do they differ across development?
  • How do they shape behavior?
  • How do they shape the developing brain?

Brain imaging is totally tubular

Just make sure to go before…

  • Sorry, Jon Cohen. :(

Help us build the future…

Lessons learned

CMU ≠

The world doesn't seem to know that.

But, Google does…

Put the emPHAsis on the right sylLABle

CarNEgie Mellon

The world doesn't know that, either.

Think or thwim mentoring has its virtues

This is 'gradient descent'

ACT-R does not mean

A Cognitive Theory

MacMail 0.9 was good

  • So was Word 5.1a
  • Never upgrade

Avoid holy wars

  • GUI vs. command line
  • Mac vs. Windows vs. *nix
  • Blue state vs. Red state
  • Nativism vs. empiricism
  • Python vs. R
  • JavaScript vs. a real language

From simple beginnings…

Psychology is harder than physics

Don't have physics envy

CMU ≠ A Typical Psychology Department

Be thankful for that. I am.

The Brady Bunch

The Brady Baker Bunch

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story of a neural network
Who was fighting for street cred in the hood.
All the models had their productions.
The network didn't feel good.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story of a neural network
Who was fighting for street cred in the hood.
All the models had their productions.
The network didn't feel good.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story of a neural network
Who was fighting for street cred in the hood.
All the models had their productions.
The network didn't feel good.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story of a neural network
Who was fighting for street cred in the hood.
All the models had their productions.
The network didn't feel good.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story, of SOARing frameworks
that were 'splainin' cognition on their own.
Just ACT-Rs in a play for Bobby Klatzky.
But, they were all alone.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story, of SOARing frameworks
that were 'splainin' cognition on their own.
Just ACT-Rs in a play for Bobby Klatzky.
But, they were all alone.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story, of SOARing frameworks
that were 'splainin' cognition on their own.
Just ACT-Rs in a play for Bobby Klatzky.
But, they were all alone.

The Baker Bunch

Here's the story, of SOARing frameworks
that were 'splainin' cognition on their own.
Just ACT-Rs in a play for Bobby Klatzky.
But, they were all alone.

The Baker Bunch

'Til the one day when the network reached its threshold.
And the CPUs ran out of things to crunch.
The geeks saw colleagues as their family.
That's how we all became the Baker Bunch.

The Baker Bunch

'Til the one day when the network reached its threshold,
And the CPUs ran out of things to crunch.
The geeks saw colleagues as their family.
That's how we all became the Baker Bunch.

The Baker Bunch

'Til the one day when the network reached its threshold,
And the CPUs ran out of things to crunch.
The geeks saw colleagues as their family.
That's how we all became the Baker Bunch.

The Baker Bunch

'Til the one day when the network reached its threshold,
And the CPUs ran out of things to crunch.
The geeks saw colleagues as their family.
That's how we all became the Baker Bunch.

The Baker Bunch

The Baker Bunch, The Baker Bunch.
That's the way we all became the Baker Bunch.

The Baker Bunch

Adolph, Karen; 2015. “Active Vision in Passive Locomotion: Real-World Free Viewing in Infants and Adults.” Databrary. doi:10.17910/B7.123.

Gilmore, Florian; Jayaraman, Rick O.; Raudies. 2014. “Natural Scene Statistics of Visual Experience Across Development and Culture.” Databrary. doi:10.17910/B7988V.

Gilmore, Rick O.; 2014. “Cortical Responses to Optic Flow and Motion Contrast Across Patterns and Speeds.” Databrary. doi:10.17910/B7101Z.